.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 260 128
Rank change year-on-year -67 -132 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 414 446 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.19% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 5.73% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 381 390 1,777
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,187 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,919 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +7.69% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,751 7,789 16,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.95% 20.85% 20.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,865 5,913 14,024
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -64 119 £55,000 -4.35% 39
London -67 78 £80,000 - 54
South East -49 67 £60,000 +14.29% 55
North West -38 65 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Midlands -22 63 £65,000 +23.81% 20
East Midlands -27 47 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South West -37 44 £55,000 -21.43% 16
East of England -24 35 £90,000 +80.00% 26
North East -24 29 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -73 25 £42,500 -29.17% 10
West Midlands -45 16 £65,000 +11.59% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.69%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 246 (59.42%) Azure
2 84 (20.29%) AWS
3 65 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.35%) Serverless
5 45 (10.87%) SaaS
6 39 (9.42%) Power Platform
7 36 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 35 (8.45%) GitHub
9 23 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.59%) Azure Functions
11 18 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 18 (4.35%) Power Automate
11 18 (4.35%) PowerApps
12 17 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (3.38%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 14 (3.38%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (37.20%) SQL Server
2 55 (13.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (8.21%) Power BI
4 31 (7.49%) NoSQL
5 26 (6.28%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.14%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.90%) MySQL
9 10 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.17%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.21%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (11.84%) Git
2 8 (1.93%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.21%) JIRA
5 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.72%) NUnit
6 3 (0.72%) Vite
7 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.48%) MSTest
7 2 (0.48%) webpack
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (14.49%) Finance
2 47 (11.35%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.62%) Games
4 12 (2.90%) Banking
4 12 (2.90%) Law
5 9 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.93%) Front Office
6 8 (1.93%) Retail
7 7 (1.69%) Automotive
8 6 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.21%) Legal
10 4 (0.97%) Advertising
10 4 (0.97%) Marketing
11 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.48%) Local Government
12 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 294 (71.01%) Developer
2 133 (32.13%) .NET Developer
3 117 (28.26%) Senior
4 105 (25.36%) Software Developer
5 73 (17.63%) Senior Developer
6 72 (17.39%) C# Developer
7 55 (13.29%) Lead
8 51 (12.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (12.32%) Software Engineer
9 48 (11.59%) C# .NET Developer
10 30 (7.25%) Lead Developer
11 28 (6.76%) .NET Software Engineer
11 28 (6.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (6.52%) Senior Software Developer
13 24 (5.80%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (5.56%) Applications Developer
14 23 (5.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 21 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (4.83%) Azure Developer
16 20 (4.83%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (100.00%) .NET
2 136 (32.85%) ASP.NET
3 86 (20.77%) .NET Framework
3 86 (20.77%) React
4 60 (14.49%) RESTful
5 59 (14.25%) Blazor
5 59 (14.25%) HTML
6 56 (13.53%) ASP.NET Core
6 56 (13.53%) CSS
7 53 (12.80%) Entity Framework
8 43 (10.39%) AngularJS
9 41 (9.90%) Vue
10 29 (7.00%) Node.js
10 29 (7.00%) REST
11 25 (6.04%) ASP.NET MVC
12 23 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
13 19 (4.59%) JSON
14 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Graph
15 14 (3.38%) HTML5 Canvas
15 14 (3.38%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.14%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.66%) Sports Betting
6 10 (2.42%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.45%) 3D Graphics
8 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.45%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (0.97%) Social Network
11 3 (0.72%) Digital TV
11 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.14%) VMS
2 7 (1.69%) Windows
3 5 (1.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 133 (32.13%) Agile
3 111 (26.81%) Software Engineering
4 110 (26.57%) CI/CD
5 98 (23.67%) DevOps
6 71 (17.15%) Microservices
7 62 (14.98%) MVC
8 59 (14.25%) Containerisation
9 51 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.59%) SDLC
11 37 (8.94%) Collaborative Culture
12 36 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (8.45%) Clean Code
14 34 (8.21%) Mentoring
15 33 (7.97%) OO
16 32 (7.73%) Analytics
17 31 (7.49%) Collaborative Working
18 30 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (7.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 364 (87.92%) C#
2 178 (43.00%) SQL
3 119 (28.74%) JavaScript
4 62 (14.98%) TypeScript
5 35 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.11%) Python
7 12 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (2.42%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.45%) Bash
9 6 (1.45%) Java
10 4 (0.97%) Bicep
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (6.52%) Degree
2 11 (2.66%) AWS Certification
2 11 (2.66%) AWS Certified Developer
2 11 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.42%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.62%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.48%) GDPR
2 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.48%) ITGC
2 2 (0.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (19.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.73%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 127 (30.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.38%) Adobe
3 7 (1.69%) Google
4 5 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.97%) Facebook
5 4 (0.97%) Workday
6 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.48%) Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.24%) Apple
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle
7 1 (0.24%) Sony
7 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.24%) YouTube